Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions